Drakesmith, Mark
Collins, Brendan
Jones, Angela
Nnoaham, Kelechi
Thomas, Daniel Rhys
Article History
Received: 29 March 2022
Accepted: 4 August 2022
First Online: 22 September 2022
Declarations
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: The study was reviewed by the Public Health Wales Research and Development Office and determined to be usual practice in public health, and therefore did not require external NHS ethics committee approval. Investigation of communicable disease outbreaks and surveillance of notifiable disease is permitted under Public Health Wales Establishment Order. Data were held and processed under Public Health Wales information governance arrangements in compliance with the Data Protection Act, Caldicott Principles and Public Health Wales guidance on the release of small numbers. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevantĀ guidelines and regulations. Informed consent was obtained from all individuals prior to their participation in the mass testing pilot. No data identifying protected characteristics of an individual were released outside Public Health Wales. Data used in the study was anonymised prior to analysis. Permission to use this data in this study was granted by the organisers of the mass testing pilot.
: Not applicable.
: All authors declare no support from any organization for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years. Dr Collins is seconded as Head of Health Economics in Welsh Government, this paper does not represent any views of Welsh Government.